May 4, 2021
The Guardians of the Forest, a group of indigenous Guajajara in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, struggle to defend their land from invaders and to guarantee their survival in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Guardians of the Forest, a group of indigenous Guajajara in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, struggle to defend their land from invaders and to guarantee their survival in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Indigenous Emergency is the front of the indigenous movement in Brazil in confronting the pandemic of COVID-19 and its expansion over the territories and native peoples.
Every year, more people are killed defending the environment than are soldiers from the United Kingdom and Australia on overseas deployments in war zones combined. During the last 15 years, the number of both deaths of environmental defenders, and the countries where they occur, have increased. Recorded deaths have increased from two per week to four per week over this period. These deaths are primarily related to conflict over natural resources, across a range of sectors. Of 683 total deaths, >230 were related to mining and agribusiness between 2014 and 2017. We find that rule of law and corruption indices are closely linked to patterns of killings. Using spatial data, we investigate the drivers of these conflicts and violence and seek to identify who may be most at risk and why. We argue that businesses, investors and national governments at both ends of the chain of violence need to be more accountable. The number of environmental activists and defenders killed per week around the world over the past 15 years has doubled. Countries with the most corruption and weakest rule of law have the highest correlation with deaths but environmental rights face threats even in industrialized countries.
Mined Amazon map shows real-time updates of new mining processes within the 41 federal protected areas of integral preservation in the Amazon forest. Brazilian law prohibits any mining activity in these areas. The records are the result of information cross-checked from ANM and ICMBio databases. The records are published on @amazonia_minada Twitter Bot account, which tweets when a new mining request is registered.
The destruction of 110 thousand square kilometres of forests in the largest mining project in Venezuela
The satellite images reveal miles of unregistered gold mining in Peru's Amazon rainforest, Nasa says.
Mining strips nitrogen from the soil and means the forest struggles to grow back even after mines are abandoned.